Is it possible to be a democrat and not be an idiot?

Flopping Aces ^ | 06-01-17 | DrJohn

[Starman417]

Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord.  It was a good thing to do as all the burdens were to fall on the US:

1. Goodbye to ‘American Last.’ The Paris agreement was basically an attempt to halt climate change on the honor system. Its only legal requirements were for signatories to announce goals and report progress, with no international enforcement mechanism. As a result, it was likely that the United States and wealthy European nations would have adopted and implemented severe climate change rules while many of the world’s governments would avoid doing anything that would slow their own economies. The agreement basically made the U.S. economy and Europe’s strongest economies sacrificial lambs to the cause of climate change.
2. Industrial Carnage. The regulations necessary to implement the Paris agreement would have cost the U.S. industrial sector 1.1 million jobs, according to a study commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. These job losses would center in cement, iron and steel, and petroleum refining. Industrial output would decline sharply.
3. Hollowing Out Michigan, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. The industrial carnage would have been concentrated on four states, according to the Chamber of Commerce study. Michigan’s GDP would shrink by 0.8 percent and employment would contract by 74,000 jobs. Missouri’s GDP would shrink by 1 percent. Ohio’s GDP would contract 1.2 percent. Pennsylvania’s GDP would decline by 1.8 percent and the state would lose 140,000 jobs.
4. Smashing Small Businesses, Helping Big Business. Big businesses in America strongly backed the Paris climate deal. In fact, the backers of the climate deal reads like a “who’s who” of big American businesses: Apple, General Electric, Intel, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, General Mills, Walmart, DuPont, Unilever, and Johnson & Johnson. These business giants can more easily cope with costly regulations than their smaller competitors and many would, in fact, find business opportunities from the changes required. But smaller businesses and traditional start-ups would likely be hurt by the increased costs of compliance and rising energy costs.
5. Making America Poorer Again.  A Heritage Foundation study found that the Paris agreement would have increased the electricity costs of an American family of four by between 13 percent and 20 percent annually. It forecast a loss of income of $20,000 by 2035. In other words, American families would be paying more while making less. 
6. Much Poorer. The overall effect of the agreement would have been to reduce U.S. GDP by over $2.5 trillion and eliminate 400,000 jobs by 2035, according to Heritage’s study. This would exacerbate problems with government funding and deficits, make Social Security solvency more challenging, and increase reliance on government’s spending to support households.

Additionally:

According to a study by The Heritage Foundation released in 2016, if the Obama Paris agreement were to be followed, “there would be 206,104 fewer manufacturing jobs between 2016 and 2040.” Heritage projects a loss of over $2.5 trillion in aggregate loss of gross domestic product by 2035.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute put out a similar report in May of 2017, which found that “the United States cannot comply with the Paris Agreement and pursue a pro-growth energy agenda.” The group concluded that the agreement’s “central goal is to make fossil fuels, America’s most plentiful and affordable ene

rgy source, more expensive across the board” and “would destroy U.S. manufacturing’s energy price edge.”

The accord is said to be toothless, but it does leave the US vulnerable. The US would suffer while China and India would plow on building up their consumption of oil and coal. The accord is in line with obama's desire to diminish the US' prominence and redistribute our wealth to the world.

Predictably, hysteria broke out among liberals.

Nicole Wallace called Trump "cynical and shallow."

John Kerry, who promised us Syria had given up all its chemical weapons, said Trump has "put America last."

Congressional democrats called it "cruel" and "indefensible."

Fareed Zakaria sputtered that Trump has "resigned as the leader of the free world."

Obama also whined about it.

But the Grand Prize goes to billionaire Tom Steyer, who made his fortune in oil and gas, called Donald Trump's action a "traitorous act of war." 

Aside from sucking at civics, Steyer is world class hypocrite.

[marktwain]

People can be very smart, and make idiotic choices, when they hold false assumptions about how the universe works.

Liberals start with false assumptions about how the universe works.

[bgill]

No.

[Savage Beast]

"Is it possible to be a democrat and not be an idiot?"

Of course. Some psychopaths are quite intelligent.

[TLI]

Is it possible to be a democrat and not be an idiot?

Technically, yes, it is possible.

But anyone claiming to be a "democrat" (proglib commrat) will be expected to act and say the same things as the majority of "democrats" that actually are idiots.

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[fwdude]

Perhaps a dead Democrat would be a bit smarter?

[EasySt]

Yes, but only by being maliciously, intentionally evil.

The rest are just idiots.

[loveliberty2]

"Is it not High Time for the People of this Country explicitly to declare, whether they will be Freemen or Slaves? It is an important Question which ought to be decided. It concerns us more than any Thing in this Life. The Salvation of our Souls is interested in the Event: For wherever Tyranny is establish'd, Immorality of every Kind comes in like a Torrent. It is in the Interest of Tyrants to reduce the People to Ignorance and Vice. For they cannot live in any Country where Virtue and Knowledge prevail. The Religion and public Liberty of a People are intimately connected; their Interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this Reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin'd to destroy the People's Liberties, practice every Art to poison their Morals. How greatly then does it concern us, at all Events, to put a Stop to the Progress of Tyranny. It is advanced already by far too many Strides. We are at this moment upon a precipice. The next step may be fatal to us. Let us then act like wise Men; calmly took around us and consider what is best to be done. Let us converse together upon this most interesting Subject and open our minds freely to each other. Let it be the topic of conversation in every social Club. Let every Town assemble. Let Associations & Combinations be everywhere set up to consult and recover our just Rights.

" The Country claims our active Aid.
That let us roam; & where we find a Spark
Of public Virtue, blow it into Flame."

- Samuel Adams

[Harpotoo]

At one Yes, nowadays nope!

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I am a Democrat and not an idiot.

I registered as a Democrat so I could vote against Hitlery in the primary.

Since I live in California there's little chance I will get an opportunity to vote for a Republican capable of winning for an election.

However, I can now vote for liberal nutso candidates in the primary in hopes they will be unpalatable to the general electorate allowing a reasonable Republican to squeeze through in the general. Or vote for the lesser of two evil Democrats.

Yes there are some Democrats that can think with up to 10% of their brains and occasionally support reasonable policies for the sake of business, agricultural, or suburban interests.

[sanjuanbob]

It’s a genetic flaw so technically you are not being politically correct if you label them idiots. They’re sick MF’rs.

[\/\/ayne]

I believe the term is “useful idiot!”

[samtheman]

Not after the 1970s. That was the last hurrah for sanity in the dem party. I’m not including Carter in that assessment, I’m just saying you have to go back to the 1970s to find sane dems.

[UCANSEE2]

There are as many democrats who are not idiots as there are planets with intelligent life in our galaxy.

[hal ogen]

No. DIMs/LIBs are also lunatics and malignancies on civil society.

[Bob434]

no because birds of a feather flock together-

[dp0622]

This article should be in the Captain Obvious column.

Alas, to many, many people it’s not.

[rdl6989]

Nope, next question.

[rlmorel]

Agreed.

The issue with many liberal stances (and Man-caused global warming is one of them) is that they accept fundamentally flawed premises on which to base them, and never look back.

I have fallen victim to it myself, and the best example of that for me is the demonization of Senator Joseph McCarthy. I unthinkingly accepted the liberal version of his life, because every news article, teacher, professor, media scribe said it was so.

It was all a colossal lie.

Same with AGW (man-caused global warming). The entire premise liberals use to base it on is the mirroring of the graphs over thousands of years that purport to show CO2 levels rising followed by rising global temperatures. (Famously displayed by Al Gore in his “Inconvenient Truth” hoax.)

In actuality, the temperature rises following natural variations, causing ocean temperatures to rise resulting in outgassing of CO2. (It takes hundreds of years for ocean temperatures to rise, causing the lag)

This is also another reason to despise Google, as it has religiously scrubbed and manipulated this analysis so it does not show up easily in their searches. They have done this with nearly all aspects of man-caused global warming, so when people search, all they see is Al Gore’s version.

[pleasenotcalifornia]

I am curious. Can you give me an example of an elected democrat who can think with more than ten percent of their brain. Thanks